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Hurricane Dorian helps to solve the mystery of the extinct Abaco wild horses

September 5, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

But Dorian destroys remnants of a 50-year effort to save the herd             TREASURE CAY, Little Abaco,  Bahamas––“This is like listening to a cosmic version of Ravel’s Bolero.  Feeling nervous about when the brass kicks in,”  wrote would-be wild horse savior and local dog rescuer Milanne “Mimi” Rehor,  in her last posting to Facebook before […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Caribbean, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, The Americas, USA, Wild horses, Working horses Tagged With: Edison Key, Merritt Clifton, Milanne "Mimi" Rehor, Robert Smalls, Sharon Cregier, Stacey McKenna

When it comes to hauling horses,  bassackward is right

May 30, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Hauling is often more stressful for horses than the events they are hauled to VANCOUVER–More than two million U.S. and Canadian horse-keepers haul more than nine million horses an average of more than a dozen times each per year,  one or two in a trailer. Farriers and veterinarians usually drive to the horses’ barns,  to […]

Filed Under: Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals Tagged With: bassackward, Merritt Clifton, Odessa Holmes, Sharon Cregier

How best to euthanize a horse?

March 2, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

You recently wrote these sentences that are at odds with best and standard practices in the horse industry:  “But horses are rarely killed by pentobarbital,  since the required dose would be about 100 times the average dose for a dog and several hundred times the average dose for a cat.  Rather,  when horses are euthanized […]

Filed Under: Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Other horse topics, Slaughter Tagged With: Liz O'Connell, Rebecca Gimenez, Sharon Cregier

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